Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[SammyOES2]

I don't think it's any small coincidence that the area the new highway 7 will bisect is very prominently excluded from all greenbelt-type protection plans. It looks like you could drop in urban/suburban/exurban development and merge Guelph with KWC, with this forming a main connection between them.

At one of the public meetings I attended it was mentioned that the long-term plan is to develop north of the existing highway and south of the new highway.  But that was all planning that was still 25+ years out as the short-medium term the development will mostly happen south of the existing highway.

Edit: This was on the Region of Waterloo side.  Not sure what the deal is on the Guelph side.  But they're running out of new development area too.